ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,847, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothes treatment apparatus" was invented by Taejun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungkyu Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongryeol Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoungsup Park (Seoul, South Korea), Youngjin Doh (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghoo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining a treatment chamber configured to accommodate hanging clothes and a cycle chamber configured to house machinery, the cycle chamber being positioned vertically below the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment...